The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat - Bob Drury ,Tom Clavin Audiobook
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Read by Michael Prichard
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: Tantor Media
Release date: February 24, 2009
Duration: 11:43:38
Another excellent book on the Korean War—
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the Toktong Pass, a narrow gorge in the Nangnim Mountains. It will need to be held open at all costs.
The mission is handed to Captain William Barber and the 234 Marines of Fox Company, a courageous but undermanned unit of the First Marines. Barber and his men are ordered to climb seven miles of frozen terrain to a rocky promontory overlooking the pass. The Marines have no way of knowing that the ground they occupy—it is soon dubbed “Fox Hill”—is surrounded by 10,000 Chinese soldiers. As the sun sets on the hill, and the temperature plunges to thirty degrees below zero, Barber’s men dig in for the night. At two in the morning they are awakened by the sound—bugles, whistles, cymbals, and drumbeats—of a massive assault by thousands of enemy infantry. The attack is just the first wave of four days and five nights of nearly continuous Chinese attempts to take Fox Hill, during which Barber’s beleaguered company clings to the high ground and allows the First Marine Division to battle south. Amid the relentless violence, three-quarters of Fox Company’s Marines are killed, wounded, or captured.
Just when it looks like the outfit will be overrun, Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Davis, a fearless Marine officer who is fighting south from Chosin, volunteers to lead a force of 500 men on a daring mission that cuts a hole in the Chinese lines and relieves the men of Fox Company.
The Last Stand of Fox Company is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism and self-sacrifice in the face of impossible odds. The authors have conducted dozens of firsthand interviews with the battle’s survivors, and they narrate the story with the immediacy of such classic accounts of single battles as Guadalcanal Diary, Pork Chop Hill, and Black Hawk Down.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
October 25th, 2017
Reposting previous comment:
Thanks for the upload! I own this book and am looking forward to listening to it. My father was a marine and fought with Fox Company at the Chosin Reservoir. He received the Purple Heart and kept in touch with several of “The Chosin Few” until he passed away.
October 25th, 2017
Thank you, this is a great book. A ‘Top 3′ on the Korean War and a Top 10 for ‘Military History’. I.M.H.O.
Bob Dury is a world class author. Look him up, all of his books are very good.
October 25th, 2017
Correction: Typo sorry - make that Bob Drury…
October 25th, 2017
I seem to have become the military historian this week. I also had uncles, cousins, brothers, friends in one of these wars so it is not dead to me. These books honor all the lost young men. Next up,,,
https://historyaudio.org/audio-books/islands-of-the-damned-a-marine-at-war-in-the-pacific-r-v-burgin-william-marvel/
October 26th, 2017
Thank you, jodindy. You definitely are the Military Historian of the Week.
@Umbhenso59…A ‘Top 3′ on the Korean War…
and the others are?
July 11th, 2019
thanks!
August 1st, 2022
Thank you so much
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